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AirForceVet [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-03-18 12:36:48 AM  
Well, I guess the high school production of Porgy and Bess is out, too.
 
kdawg7736 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-03-18 12:42:28 AM  
FTFA:

"The Addams Family musical reflects today's culture, Board member Robbie England said, but he did not view that as a good thing."

WTH?

Also FTFA:

"No matter what musical we choose, somebody somewhere is going to have discomfort with it," she said. "That doesn't necessarily mean that it is inappropriate for the entire school and entire community."

So one person has a problem with something we can't have it anymore?

One more thing:

"Board President Barry Naum said he reviewed the musical and found 40 things he could consider offensive, though they were not personally offensive to him.

"I know that I would enjoy seeing this play in a community theater or some other context," he said. "But when it comes down to it, we are not a community theater. We are a school.""

Community theater is almost like a high school when it comes to play, and it doesn't bother him personally, so why is he complaining?
 
kdawg7736 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-03-18 12:43:12 AM  

AirForceVet: Well, I guess the high school production of Porgy and Bess is out, too.


I first read that as Porky's. I don't think a school would make that one.
 
Lady J [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-03-18 12:45:14 AM  

kdawg7736: FTFA:

"The Addams Family musical reflects today's culture, Board member Robbie England said, but he did not view that as a good thing."

WTH?

Also FTFA:

"No matter what musical we choose, somebody somewhere is going to have discomfort with it," she said. "That doesn't necessarily mean that it is inappropriate for the entire school and entire community."

So one person has a problem with something we can't have it anymore?

One more thing:

"Board President Barry Naum said he reviewed the musical and found 40 things he could consider offensive, though they were not personally offensive to him.

"I know that I would enjoy seeing this play in a community theater or some other context," he said. "But when it comes down to it, we are not a community theater. We are a school.""

Community theater is almost like a high school when it comes to play, and it doesn't bother him personally, so why is he complaining?


jesus h christ what?
 
Kubo [TotalFark]
2023-03-18 12:59:21 AM  
Conservatives are the most scared, sniveling cowards of any collective group. Scared of a kids play. Scared of drag queens. Scared of books.
 
Gordon Bennett [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-03-18 1:31:05 AM  

kdawg7736: AirForceVet: Well, I guess the high school production of Porgy and Bess is out, too.

I first read that as Porky's. I don't think a school would make that one.


I agree. Porky's II would be far more appropriate.

So Sayeth the Shepherd, So Sayeth the Flock!!
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optikeye [TotalFark]
2023-03-18 3:57:49 AM  
But killing your child on a stone 'because God told you'...just shows you're a Good Christian.
 
wax_on [BareFark]
2023-03-18 4:30:00 AM  
So Best Little Whorehouse in Texas it is then.
 
Some Junkie Cosmonaut
2023-03-18 4:30:42 AM  

kdawg7736: FTFA:

"The Addams Family musical reflects today's culture, Board member Robbie England said, but he did not view that as a good thing."

WTH?

Also FTFA:

"No matter what musical we choose, somebody somewhere is going to have discomfort with it," she said. "That doesn't necessarily mean that it is inappropriate for the entire school and entire community."

So one person has a problem with something we can't have it anymore?

One more thing:

"Board President Barry Naum said he reviewed the musical and found 40 things he could consider offensive, though they were not personally offensive to him.

"I know that I would enjoy seeing this play in a community theater or some other context," he said. "But when it comes down to it, we are not a community theater. We are a school.""

Community theater is almost like a high school when it comes to play, and it doesn't bother him personally, so why is he complaining?


Because it is an excuse for authoritarian bullshiat, and that makes his no-no all tingly
 
Diocletian's Last Cabbage [TotalFark]
2023-03-18 4:32:02 AM  
A school won't have an Addams Family play next year because it doesn't promote enough family values

Oh snap snap!
 
wildcardjack
2023-03-18 4:34:26 AM  
I'd make the money argument. The performance rights and equipment rentals are going to cost more than the fundraiser campaigns ever clear, and there's plenty of cheaper options.
 
Ragin' Asian [TotalFark]
2023-03-18 4:35:53 AM  
Member of the school board, Troy Williams:

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Pastor Troy graduated summa cum laude from Liberty University with a bachelor's degree in Christian Leadership and Management and earned a Master of Divinity in Pastoral Ministries from the Rawlings School of Divinity at Liberty University in 2019.

He's spent many years of training to be a stereotype.
 
hlehmann
2023-03-18 4:37:00 AM  
I farking hate conservatives with a passion, I really do.
 
hlehmann
2023-03-18 4:38:42 AM  

Ragin' Asian: Member of the school board, Troy Williams:

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Pastor Troy graduated summa cum laude from Liberty University with a bachelor's degree in Christian Leadership and Management and earned a Master of Divinity in Pastoral Ministries from the Rawlings School of Divinity at Liberty University in 2019.

He's spent many years of training to be a stereotype.


Yep, that face has "pedophile" written all over it.
 
433 [TotalFark]
2023-03-18 4:47:24 AM  

hlehmann: Yep, that face has "pedophile" written all over it.


You see what you want to see, I guess.  My first impression was Gordon Freeman from half-life or any number of GenX dads.
 
optikeye [TotalFark]
2023-03-18 4:51:25 AM  

Ragin' Asian: Member of the school board, Troy Williams:

[Fark user image 425x382]

Pastor Troy graduated summa cum laude from Liberty University with a bachelor's degree in Christian Leadership and Management and earned a Master of Divinity in Pastoral Ministries from the Rawlings School of Divinity at Liberty University in 2019.

He's spent many years of training to be a stereotype.


I bet there's a bartender at the gay bar going "Hey, I know that guy"
 
sinko swimo
2023-03-18 4:51:46 AM  
my eldest sister was a English elementary school teacher in Upstate NY. one year they did " Hair Spray". the kids got the biggest kick out of learning to project to the audience, learning about timing and memorizing lines, et cetera. taking a play away from the kids is terrible. the school play is something kids remember for the rest of their lives.

these must be the same sonsabiatches that ruined Halloween.
 
Dasher McHappenstance [TotalFark]
2023-03-18 4:52:12 AM  
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Commander Lysdexic
2023-03-18 4:53:04 AM  
One of the core themes of the Addams Family TV show was that people are very different to one another but it doesn't mean we have to hate and fear them for it.

I can see why that upsets certain people.
 
batlock666
2023-03-18 4:58:11 AM  
I went to see an amateur production of The Addams Family musical a couple of months ago. A cousin of mine played uncle Fester. It was all about family values. The most horrifying part was the yellow dress.
 
oyster_popsicles
2023-03-18 5:15:01 AM  

wax_on: So Best Little Whorehouse in Texas it is then.


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Raoul Eaton [TotalFark]
2023-03-18 5:22:35 AM  

wax_on: So Best Little Whorehouse in Texas it is then.


My kid's high school class did Urinetown as the big school musical one year. It was great.
 
olorin604
2023-03-18 5:33:40 AM  
Eggs really need to drop in price because there are a whole lot of administrator and community fun-breakers houses that need an application of teenage vandalism.
 
MrBallou [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-03-18 5:38:48 AM  
People need to lighten the fark up, to state the obvious.
 
Buckaroo Beeblebrox
2023-03-18 5:49:08 AM  
He's upset they're not doing the song where Mal sings about squid sex.
 
wearbear67
2023-03-18 5:49:28 AM  
The board would prefer that great musical about "Christian" valued "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" you know the one where 7 crazed incel brothers kidnap and rape 7 "brides". Fun for the whole family
 
dryknife
2023-03-18 6:22:32 AM  
"...is the musical appropriate...?...And the answer is no."


Well, I guess that's Itt.

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Nana's Vibrator
2023-03-18 6:49:01 AM  

optikeye: But killing your child on a stone 'because God told you'...just shows you're a Good Christian.


This is the obvious answer.  You do a performance of several short Bible stories and you make it as realistic as possible.  Like the front row of a Gallagher Aquarium Dolphin Show where people are completely soaked in limbs and blood.
 
odinsposse
2023-03-18 6:50:43 AM  
So 1960's network TV is too extreme for modern conservatism. Remember when conservatives complained about people being snowflakes?
 
Circusdog320 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-03-18 7:02:33 AM  
"The question at hand is

The question at hand is it
No it is not the hand

Who's on first
What?

The question at hand is

No!
It...PERIOD!

It's on its period. It's a girl?
It's it
 
Cheron
2023-03-18 7:20:55 AM  

wax_on: So Best Little Whorehouse in Texas it is then.


Cabaret
 
camarugala
2023-03-18 7:27:14 AM  
They should just do Rent and get it out of their system.
 
Unobtanium [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-03-18 7:31:01 AM  

olorin604: Eggs really need to drop in price because there are a whole lot of administrator and community fun-breakers houses that need an application of teenage vandalism.


There's no longer a TP shortage...
 
Unobtanium [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-03-18 7:32:32 AM  

camarugala: They should just do Rent and get it out of their system.


The high school.kids, or the school board?
 
brilett
2023-03-18 7:37:09 AM  

Ragin' Asian: Member of the school board, Troy Williams:

[Fark user image image 425x382]

Pastor Troy graduated summa cum laude from Liberty University with a bachelor's degree in Christian Leadership and Management and earned a Master of Divinity in Pastoral Ministries from the Rawlings School of Divinity at Liberty University in 2019.

He's spent many years of training to be a stereotype.


GenX old fart.
 
Slaxl
2023-03-18 7:39:23 AM  

Ragin' Asian: Member of the school board, Troy Williams:

[Fark user image image 425x382]

Pastor Troy graduated summa cum laude from Liberty University with a bachelor's degree in Christian Leadership and Management and earned a Master of Divinity in Pastoral Ministries from the Rawlings School of Divinity at Liberty University in 2019.

He's spent many years of training to be a stereotype.


I've never seen a nose with love handles before. WTF? His nose has rolls of fat. How?
 
Unobtanium [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-03-18 7:40:36 AM  

Nana's Vibrator: optikeye: But killing your child on a stone 'because God told you'...just shows you're a Good Christian.

This is the obvious answer.  You do a performance of several short Bible stories and you make it as realistic as possible.  Like the front row of a Gallagher Aquarium Dolphin Show where people are completely soaked in limbs and blood.


Or Shakespeare. Titus Andronicus.
 
Laobaojun
2023-03-18 7:50:31 AM  

Unobtanium: Nana's Vibrator: optikeye: But killing your child on a stone 'because God told you'...just shows you're a Good Christian.

This is the obvious answer.  You do a performance of several short Bible stories and you make it as realistic as possible.  Like the front row of a Gallagher Aquarium Dolphin Show where people are completely soaked in limbs and blood.

Or Shakespeare. Titus Andronicus.


Heck, Comedy of Errors would send these lackwits off the rails if they had the vocabulary to understand it.
 
IlGreven
2023-03-18 7:57:09 AM  

Commander Lysdexic: One of the core themes of the Addams Family TV show was that people are very different to one another but it doesn't mean we have to hate and fear them for it.

I can see why that upsets certain people.


Also, it's a family where the parents never fight, the kids are happy, healthy, and like each other (despite trying to kill each other while playing), and the uncle may seem creepy, but isn't really...
 
Veloram
2023-03-18 8:00:44 AM  
Their 'family values' are less Addams Family and more Sweeny Todd, I take it?
 
baka-san [TotalFark]
2023-03-18 8:03:23 AM  

Veloram: Their 'family values' are less Addams Family and more Sweeny Todd, I take it?


I'm betting Flowers in the Attic
 
OtherLittleGuy [BareFark]
2023-03-18 8:04:31 AM  

AirForceVet: Well, I guess the high school production of Porgy and Bess is out, too.


And Carmen Jones.
 
kmgenesis23
2023-03-18 8:06:42 AM  
Maybe they could stage The Residents' "Wormwood"? That should satisfy the Bible thumpers.
 
OtherLittleGuy [BareFark]
2023-03-18 8:06:51 AM  

wearbear67: The board would prefer that great musical about "Christian" valued "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" you know the one where 7 crazed incel brothers kidnap and rape 7 "brides". Fun for the whole family


It's an instructoral documentary.
 
Mouser
2023-03-18 8:22:54 AM  
Wasn't the whole point of The Addams Family that they were a loving, functional family despite their bizarre antics?  Compared to every other family on TV (excepting Bluey's maybe) they have the best "family values" going.
 
Vespers
2023-03-18 8:24:58 AM  
Next season's play is going to be the cast of kids just sitting there on stage staring at each other so as not to offend.
 
Mr. Shabooboo
2023-03-18 8:27:56 AM  

Cheron: wax_on: So Best Little Whorehouse in Texas it is then.

Cabaret


Where even the orchestra is beautiful!
 
thealgorerhythm
2023-03-18 8:42:43 AM  

Raoul Eaton: wax_on: So Best Little Whorehouse in Texas it is then.

My kid's high school class did Urinetown as the big school musical one year. It was great.


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Yep, Urinetown it is
 
Abe Vigoda's Ghost [SwearJar]
2023-03-18 8:48:03 AM  
"I just think in my own opinion, there's a lot of other great musicals or great scripts we could choose from and at this time, with our climate and culture, I'd like to see a different one picked out," he said.


Gee, I wonder who created this climate and culture?


Fucking right wing nut jobs.
 
BolshyGreatYarblocks
2023-03-18 8:54:15 AM  
I always wondered why, instead of doing one big play like South Pacific or Our Town with every school kid in it, they don't do a bunch of Harold Pinter plays on successive nights with a different cast each night.

I suppose talk of infidelity and shanking would be too much for the school boards?
 
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